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From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com, rdunlap@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] misc/pvpanic: add PCI driver
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:08:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3d33f82-21ab-2244-13b0-700fc54b2093@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFDhZbRYE5szZ4l/@kroah.com>

..snip..
>> +};
>> +static unsigned int capability = PVPANIC_PANICKED | PVPANIC_CRASH_LOADED;
>> +static unsigned int events;
>> +
>> +static ssize_t capability_show(struct device *dev,
>> +			       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>> +{
>> +	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%x\n", capability);
> A global capability for all devices?  No, this needs to be a per-device
> attttribute as you are showing it to userspace as such.

We can only have a pvpanic-pci device. This is necessary in that case?

...snip..
>> +static struct attribute *pvpanic_pci_dev_attrs[] = {
>> +	&dev_attr_capability.attr,
>> +	&dev_attr_events.attr,
>> +	NULL
>> +};
>> +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(pvpanici_pci_dev);
> You did not document these new sysfs files in Documentation/ABI/ so it's
> hard to judge what they do.  Please do so next version.

This appeared after 5.12 rebase on pvpanic-mmio. I did this changes to 
pvpanic-pci to be on the same page as pvpanic-mmio which is described 
here: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-pvpanic.

Thank you,
Mihai

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-16 12:20 [PATCH v5] add support for pci in the pvpanic driver Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] misc/pvpanic: split-up generic and platform dependent code Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:44   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] misc/pvpanic: probe multiple instances Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:46   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] misc/pvpanic: add PCI driver Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:48   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 17:08     ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2021-03-16 17:29       ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 18:02         ` Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 18:16           ` Greg KH
2021-03-17  0:02   ` kernel test robot

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